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Municipals were mixed in secondary trading after U.S. Treasuries dipped to lows not seen since the beginning of the year but rose as the afternoon progressed on mixed economic news. New issues fared well and another week of $2 billion-plus inflows were reported, bringing the total to nearly $60 billion for 2021.
Triple-A benchmarks were little changed to firmer in spots on the short end after the up-and-down UST ride. Some rather hawkish comments made by Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida generated selling pressure throughout much of the Treasury curve, with munis holding steady throughout most of the tax-exempt curve,” said Jeffrey Lipton, managing director of municipal credit at Oppenheimer & Co.
Stocks gave back some of their recent gains Wednesday after a disappointing jobs report stoked worry about the strength of the economic recovery as a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, easing back from the all-time high the benchmark index set a day earlier. Crude oil prices fell more […]
NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) U.S. stocks finished mixed on Wednesday as data on the nation private-sector payrolls came in weaker than expected. The Dow Jones I
WASHINGTON (AP) Game maker Eric Poses last year created The Worst-Case Scenario Card Game, making a wry reference to the way the coronavirus had upended normal life. He had no idea. In a twist that Poses never could have predicted, his game itself would become caught up in the latest fallout from the health crisis: a backlogged global supply chain that has delayed shipments around the world and sent freight costs rocketing.